Method of producing mock patch pockets



l.A J. HERMAN ETAL METHOD 0F PRoDUcING MocK PATCH POCKET July s, T947.A

Filed Nov. '7, 1945 Patented .uly 8, 1947 l METHOD F PRODUCING MOCK PATCH POCKETS Isidor J .Herman and Alexander D. Davis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Application November 7, 1945, Serial No. 627,139

In Canada October 17, 1945 (Cl.l .2f-247) v 4 Claims. '1

This invention relates to the formation of a cifically to a mock patch pocket having a facing which is an integral part ofthe adjacent material but gives the appearance of Ybeing the separate .patch of a patch pocket. l

Patch pockets, which are much in demand, are relatively expensive'to make because they require more material than the ordinary pocket and more time is involved in their making. In the tailoring of a suit coat, for example, having a patch pocket it is necessary to cut a piece of the suiting of a size sucient to allow the formation of a pocket which will match the rest of the coat. The patch must be carefully positioned and in the case of patterned material the design must be matched.

Itis customary in modern'methods of making clothing to have the various parts'of the garment made by different workers and this means that the various parts must all be numbered, Thus the worker whose duty it is to apply to a garment a patch pocket cut by another worker has to compare the vnumbers on the two parts in addition to carefully positioning the patch and matching rthe design as mentioned above.

An object of the v present invention is to provide a mock-patch pocket Iwhich does not require the useof an extra patch of material and, therefore, does not require the matching of numbers and designs referred to above.

More particularly, an object of the present invention is to so form a pocket facing which is an integral part of the adjacent material of a garment that it has the appearance 0f being a separate patch.

Another more broad object of the invention is to so form part of a piece of material as to simulate a separate patch applied to the material.

Other objects and features of the invention will appear from the following description with reference to the drawings in which Figure l is a plan view of one type of mock patch pocket according to the invention.

Figure 2 is a plan View showing the pocket area of a garment after it has been slit and the outline of the pocket has been stitched.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a partial section on the line 4-4 of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a detail view illustrating the stitching of the folded material close to the fold line,

and

Figure 6 is a partial section on the line 6--6 of Figure 1.

The rst step in forming a mock patch pocket according to the invention on a suit coat for eX- ample, is to slit the suiting l@ on the line H shown in Figure 2 substantially parallel to the intended top line o the pocket. A short slit I2 is then made on either side of the slit Il at each end thereof.

If the pocket is to be of the type shown in Figure 1 a strip I3 of the suiting Vmaterial is vthen connected to the suiting It at the top of the slit I I and a welt it is connected to the suiting material IE) at the bottom of the slit i I. Two pieces of lining material I5 and'I are then connected respectively to the welt I4 and to the lining strip I3. As shown in Figure 3 the welt is double and its two free edges are connected by a row of stitching Il through the suiting Il), the two thicknesses of the welt It and the lining I5. The lining IG is conveniently connected'to the bottom edge of the lining strip I3'by the row of stitching I8 and is then doubled over the back face of the lining strip I3 and connected through it near its top edge to the suiting I 0 by a row of stitching i9. It will vbe understood that the connection of the lining strip I3 and welt Ill to the suiting I0 and the connection of the lining i5 and I6 to the suiting'IIL'str'ip I3 and welt I'li form no part of the presentinvention, the form of these connections being variable according tothe form of Vfinishing used 'for'the "top of the pocket.

To form the mock patch pocket, the next step after cutting the slits I I and I2 is to place a pattern in position on the suiting I 0 and chalk-mark the outline of the bottom and sides of the pocket. Then the suiting I0 and the linings I 5 and I 5 are stitched together on the chalk line 20, the result being that shown in Figure 4. Then the suiting I Il is folded .back from the reverse side of the material so far as the stitching on the line 20 will permit, and then the Worker stitches through the two folded thicknesses of suiting IIJ and through the two pieces of lining material I5 and I6 at 2I which, as shown in Figure 5, is close to the stitched line 20. As indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 5 the suiting I0 is then folded back again around the stitching 2| to the position shown in Figure 6. The two edges of lining material l5 and I6 are also folded back around the stitching ZI and the operator stitches through the suiting IIJ and four thicknesses of lining material as shown at 22.

The result is that the facing is defined by two folds of material, the fold which is directed away from the reverse side of the material being stitched close to the fold line so that the edge of the facing as seen in Figure 1 stands up from the adjacent suiting material l and makes the facing look like a separate patch. This appearance is enhanced by the line 22 which of course, may be spaced inwardly from the edge of the pocket to any desired extent.

It will be apparent that the result of proceeding as set forth above is to take up a certain amount of the suiting, and it might be thoughtA necessary to form one or more darts above the pocket to dispose oi" the resulting fullness. This may be done, but it is desired to point out that it is not essential because the second stitch line is close to the first and therefore the amount of material taken up is very small. Y

Although the invention has been described with reference to a patch pocket of a particular type of trim and applied to a suit coat, it will be understood that the invention is applicable to any of the various forms of patch pocket trim, and to any type of material capable of being sewn.

What we claim as our invention is:

1. A method of forming part of a piece of material to simulate a separate patch applied to said material, comprising sewing a stitch line defining the desired outline, folding said material along said line away from the reverse side Vof said material, sewing from such reverse side a line of stitching alongside the i'lrst stitch line but through the two thicknesses of folded material and folding said material back again from the obverse side thereof along the second line of stitchingl 2. A method of forming a pocket facing on a piece of material to simulate the separate patch of a patch pocket, comprising sewing a stitch line defining the desired outline of at least the bottom and sides of a pocket, folding said material along said line away from the reverse side or" said material, sewing from such reverse side a line of stitching alongside the iirst stitch line but through the two thicknesses of folded material, folding said material back again from the obverse side thereof along the second line of stitching, and sewing a further line of stitching spaced inwardly from and approximately parallel to the first stitch line.

3. A method of forming a pocket on a piece of material to simulate a patch pocket, comprising slitting the material along a straight line parallel to the intended top edge of the pocket, sewing lining material to the top of the resulting slit, sewamams ing a stitch line dening the outline of the bottom and sides of a pocket through said material and through said lining, the portions of the line defining the sides of the pocket ending in the area of the ends of said slit, folding said material along said stitch line away from the reverse side of the said material, sewing, from such reverse side, a line of stitching through the folded two thick- A nesses of material and through said lining material close to the fold line, and folding said maalong the second line of stitching.

4. A method of forming a pocket on a piece of material to simulate a patch pocket, comprising slitting the material along a straight line parallel to the intended top edge of the pocket, sewing lining material to the top of the resulting slit, sewing a stitch line defining the outline of the bottom and sides of a pocket through said material and through said lining, the portions of the line defining the sides of the pocket ending in the area of the ends of said slit, folding said material along said stitch line away from the reverse side of the said material, sewing, from such reverse side, a line of stitching through the folded two thicknesses of material and through said lining material close to the fold line, folding said material `back again from the obverse side thereof along the second line of stitching, and sewing a further line of stitching spaced inwardly from and approximately parallel to the rst stitch line from the obverse side of said material.

ISIDOR J. ERMAN. ALEXANDER D, DAVIS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,883,461 Baccaro Oct. 18, 1932 2,389,721 Durso Nov. 27, 1945 2,381,580 Einbinder Aug. '7, 1945 1,426,892 McCoy Aug. 22, 1922 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 485,802 Germany June 9, 1928 

